tore.
Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
Meaning & usage
Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
Full; rich.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.
Alternative form of torus.
torus
The solid enclosed by a torus
Where this word comes from
See torus.
The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
Where this word comes from
Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.
simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
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